Light Bulb Moments and the Power of Critical Thinking

Written by Gloria Moss and Katherine Armitage on December 15, 2022. Posted in Current News

This important new book comes at a crucial point in human history when unreason seeks to dethrone what is best about human civilisation.

Our weapon against the forces of destruction is Critical Thinking, a concept celebrated by Plato, Socrates, Aristotle, Descartes and Carl Jung to name but a few.

For Socrates, ‘A life without investigation is not worth living’ and for Descartes, ‘Every part of thinking, should be questioned, doubted, and tested’.

Einstein condensed this approach in his pithy ‘Question Everything’ and Jung summed up its importance in his view that ‘The ability to ask questions is the greatest resource in learning the truth’. Without Critical Thinking, there can be no truth.

Light Bulb Moments are also the product of Critical Thinking and human civilisation would be the poorer without them. So what factors can help and hinder Critical Thinking, a concept whose importance is recognised by institutions the world-over, including the BBC?

There is plentiful research on factors impeding the exercise of Critical Thinking, including conformist pressures, propaganda and the absence of modern-day teaching of relevant skills but extraordinary though it may seem, there is no research on the factors that can encourage it.

Vital findings:

This book presents the Critical Thinking of twenty four cutting-edge modern-day thinkers who reflect on the questions that acted as stepping-stones in their lives. These thinkers cover a vast range of topics from the Financial system, Law and Order, Health, History and Geo-Politics through to Philosophy, Religion and Spirituality.

Their contributions reflect lives led in different parts of the world, whether Britain, Sweden, Poland, the US or Canada and their accounts can be personal and informative at the same time. The thinkers include Sir Julian Rose, Justin Walker, Mark Devlin, John Hamer, Eve Gilmore, Matthew Ehret, David Adelman, Chad Manian, the authors and others.

Through a comparison with factors mentioned by seventy four self-confessed questing people, the authors identify the attributes and triggers that propelled these thinkers along their Critical Thinking journeys. What is more, these very features underpin the heroic thinking and actions of the heroes of Brave New World, Nineteen Eighty Four and Fahrenheit 451.

So, now finally, we know the factors that trigger Critical Thinking. Light Bulb Moments and the Power of Critical Thinking is a call to arms to enhance society’s Critical Thinking skills and with that embrace a future rooted not only in evidence-based thinking but also in truth.

Copies of the book can be purchased from 3 December on Amazon, price £15.99 (https://tinyurl.com/4jatv43r) or direct from Truth University Press alongside with bags, mugs, notebooks and pens celebrating Critical Thinking ([email protected]).Signed copies can be obtained from the authors at the ‘Questioning History’ conference near Battle on 16-18 December.

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